Cry out

Graduation

"Hallelujah! We're done with school!" Joey said excitedly as he walked out of the schoolyard with all his friends.

Seto and Seth both shook their heads in annoyance.

"Wow. He's really happy." Atemu said.

"And I thought that you would have realized by now that Joey gets excited over a lot of things." Yugi said.

"We do. I'm just not sure that I have ever seen him this happy over anything." Yami said, watching as Joey practically skipped out of the school gates.

"That's because the puppy is glad that he doesn't have to come back to this school anymore." Seth said.

"I'm with him on that one. I couldn't stand staying in this school another second." Bakura added with a grimace.

"No joke. I swear that they designed this institution just so that they can torture teenagers for four years." Akefia said.

"Try twelve years. You were only here for three of the high school years, but you have preschool, elementary, middle school, and then high school." Ryou said.

"Don't forget about college." Tea said.

"How could we? It's all that we've pounded with for the last year and a half." Mariku muttered.

The group shook their heads.

"You probably shouldn't get too excited right now, puppy." Seto said.

"Why?" Joey asked.

"Because we are going to have to come back to the school one more time." Seto replied.

Joey turned to face Seto with a look on horror on his face. "For what?" Joey asked.

"For graduation, dummy. We may have finished will all of our exams, but we still have to go through graduation." Tristan said.

"Oh." Joey said, relaxing immediately. "I can deal with that. At least I'm not having to go to class." Joey said.

"I'm sure that the school will be glad to get rid of them." Duke said, motioning to Akefia, Bakura, Marik, and Mariku.

"Hey! I'm insulted!" Akefia said.

"Come on. You four made life for the teachers at the school a living hell with all the pranks that you pulled on them. A few teachers quit just because of you. I know that the school has to be glad to get rid of you just so that they can have some semblance of order in the place." Duke said.

Mariku smirked. "A legacy that will live forever." Mariku said.

Malik sighed. "Is it too much to ask that you don't pull some kind of prank at graduation?" Malik asked.

"Yes." all four said.

"I was afraid of that." Malik muttered.

"This will be fun." Atemu stated.

"Who knows? Maybe they'll end up sick so that they won't be able to attend." Yugi said.

"Not likely." Tea said.

"I know, but a person can dream." Yugi said.

"Come on, shrimp. You don't mean that." Bakura said.

"Well, a nice, quiet, normal graduation would be nice." Yugi said.

"Not happening." Marik said.

"Which is why I'm hoping." Yugi said.

* * * * *

Atemu, Yugi, and Yami all walked into the Game Shop after getting home from their last day of school.

Solomon turned and smiled at the three when he saw them. "Hello, boys. How was the last day of classes"?" Solomon asked.